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Better to Rely on Ourselves
Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979
by Hatla Thelle
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With the implementation of economic reforms in China from
1979 came the abolition of the ‘iron rice-bowl’, the social and
employment guarantees underpinning communist rule in Maoist China. This
study combines legal and sociological perspectives to analyse changes in
the protection of social rights in China since 1979 for the
middle-income level of the urban population, based on over 40 family
interviews and documentary studies, providing unprecedented information
on Chinese citizens’ actual social situation, knowledge of state
policy and personal opinions.. It treats how conditions for employment,
housing, social security and education have undergone a complete
transformation as a consequence of the transition to a market economy.
While the Chinese population has benefited from more freedom of choice
and movement for the individual citizen, there is less stable protection
of the right to work, health care, housing and education. Moreover,
channels of popular participation in the decision-making process remain
fragile and knowledge of complaints mechanisms and legal remedies is
poor.
Published by NIAS Press,
NIAS Monographs # 97
Published 2004, 288 pp.
ISBN 978 87 91114 26 7, hardback, £40.00
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